{"id":395992,"date":"2025-09-04T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:26:19","slug":"man-who-died-after-being-found-injured-in-edinburgh-named-as-teen-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395992\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died after being found injured in Edinburgh named as teen charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man who died after being found injured on a street in Edinburgh has been named by police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John McNab died after being found injured on Great Junction Street at Bonnington Road around 2.10am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services attended and the 22-year-old died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said specialist officers are continuing to provide support to his family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/979067759b7cacb1532cc886d748f50e-1756810977.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   alt=\"A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the death.\"\/>STV NewsA 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the death. STV News<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, the force confirmed a 16-year-old boy had been arrested and charged in connection with the death.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police Scotland is urging anyone with information regarding the death to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Detective inspector Kevin Tait, of the Major Investigations Team, said: \u201cI would like to extend my sympathies to John\u2019s family and friends at this very difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries are continuing to establish the full circumstances and anyone with information should contact the inquiry team through <strong>101<\/strong>, quoting reference number 0239 of Tuesday, September 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on <strong>0800 555 111<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who died after being found injured on a street in Edinburgh has been named by police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}